Work Week

Updated Feb. 6, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

UNIONS ALLEGE BUSH PAYBACK for their strong support of Al Gore.

The White House circulates drafts of proposed executive orders on major labor issues. One would rescind a 1998 Clinton order allowing local governments building roads and other projects with federal aid to negotiate union-only construction contracts. Another would require notice at federally funded work projects that, under the Supreme Court's 1988 Beck decision,...